Professor Kevin Nell of the University of Porto, Portugal, will be visiting the School of Economics between 4 and 11 August as a Thirlwall Visiting Research Fellow. Kevin obtained his PhD from the University of Kent in 2000 on the topic of ‘Money, Inflation and Growth in South Africa’, and since then he has published several papers on similar themes in such journals as the Cambridge Journal of Economics; International Review of Applied Economics; Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and Economic Letters. He is working with Professor Tony Thirlwall on a research project explaining differences in the productivity of capital across countries.